Banglanews24.com

Banglanews24.com is an online news portal in Bangladesh.[1][2] The website, along with the Daily Sun, Bangladesh Pratidin, and Kaler Kantho, are owned by East West Media Group, a concern of the Bashundhara Group.[3][4] Alexa ranked the website 2620 worldwide and 15th in Bangladesh.[5]

Banglanews24.com
TypeOnline newspaper
FormatMobile & Web
Owner(s)East West Media Group Ltd.
PublisherBashundhara Group
Editor-in-chiefJewel Mazhar
Founded1 July 2010
LanguageBengali and English
HeadquartersMedia Complex, Plot: 371/A (2nd Floor), Block: D, Bashundhara Residential Area, Baridhara, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh
Websitebanglanews24.com

History

Banglanews24.com officially launched on 1 July 2010. The other national news agencies at the time were the state-owned Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the privately owned United News of Bangladesh (UNB), and bdnews24.com.

Controversy

Former Minister and current Awami League MP Ramesh Chandra Sen sued the portal for defamation in 2014.[6] A photo journalist of the portal was assaulted by paramilitary Bangladesh Ansar members in Shyamoli, Dhaka in March 2014.[7][8] Bangladesh Islamist organisations that included Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir, Hefazat-e-Islam, Islami Oikya Jote, and Nabi Premik Jagrata Janata vandalized their offices in Chittagong, Bangladesh on 23 February 2013.[9]

Sister concerns

References
  1. "Sahitya Adda dedicated to Chandan". The Daily Star. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  2. "Attacks, rampage in major cities". The Daily Star. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  3. "Press Council serves notice on Daily Sun". The Daily Star. 17 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. "Press Council serves notices on 2 dailies". The Daily Star. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  5. "banglanews24.com Site Overview". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  6. "AL MP sues Banglanews24 editor, reporters". The Daily Star. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  7. "Ansar men 'assault' journalist couple". The Daily Star. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  8. "photo gallery". The Daily Star. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  9. "Attacks, rampage in major cities". The Daily Star. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2016.


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